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German Taxpayers Faced With €800K Windows 7 Support Bill Due To Deutschland Dithering

posted by Fnord666 on Friday January 24 2020, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-were-told dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

German authorities are waking up to a Windows 7 headache, with approximately €800,000 required in order to keep the elderly software supported a little longer.

Microsoft had long been warning users, both enterprises and individuals, that the end of support was nigh - 14 January - and made available various ways of keeping those updates flowing.

Alternatively there is always the option of a migration to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) with three years of free-ish support (because, y'know, you still have to pay for those Azure resources).

Finally, customers that had ponied up the cash for an E5 subscription could also be entitled to an extra year of Windows 7 security updates, through to 2021 (assuming the subscription stays active).

Blighty's very own NHS is an example of just such an organisation, having splashed the cash for some E5 goodness.

The position in which the German government now finds itself might raise a wry smile somewhere in Seattle.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 24 2020, @11:20PM (2 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 24 2020, @11:20PM (#948230) Journal
    Gotta love how stupid trolls demonstrate their stupidity with flawed arguments. Have you ever contributed to Windows/OSX or do you just complain about it all the time? Same flawed argument, just a different target.

    I noticed you continue to fail to address the problems I point out - that's a pretty tacit admission that you can't attack them because they are real and neither you nor anyone else is addressing them.

    And the reason is the fundamental flaw of free software - only the big players can afford to pay people to fix bugs, and nobody enjoys fixing bugs even when paid, never mind doing it for free.

    Either address the problems I continue to point out with both the flawed development model and the buggy software, or fix the problems. Your whining about how it's somehow unreasonable for people to point out the many problems is tedious. No wonder you don't log in - you're a moron.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:40AM (#948393)

    Sounds like you are looking in a mirror ...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:45AM (#948396)

    I dont use windows or OSX and dont complain or care about them.

    I use linux and contribute where I can.

    As if this argument means anything -- "only the big players can afford to pay people to fix bugs"
    How is all the pay that MS is paying working out for you?

    I will just filter you out from now on -- waste of time ...